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<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1796712-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <table width="500" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="" summary=""> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><img width="216" height="216" alt="" src="/users/SylArena3481/Image//Syl_Wasco_Port_4605_216px_RGB.jpg" /></td> <td><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-weight: bold;">SYL</span> | 'sill'</font><br /> <ol> <li>short for 'Sylvester' </li> <li>rhymes with 'Bill', 'Phil' and 'Will'</li> <li>best not pronounced as 'Sile' or 'Sly'</li> </ol> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <font size="4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-weight: bold;"><br /> </font><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A LIFETIME BEHIND THE LENS...<br /> A LIFETIME IN AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE<br /> </span></span></font></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /> Syl traces his roots in the green industries back through three generations of his family to the founding of the Arena Fruit Co. in 1888. As a youth, he spent many summers working on his father’s cotton farm west of Phoenix. His photography career started in fourth grade when he received a Kodak Brownie camera from his great-aunt.<br /> <br /> In college, Syl studied commercial photography at Brooks’ Institute in Santa Barbara and then earned his BFA in photography from the University of Arizona. With a creative diploma in hand, he rejoined his father and managed the family’s farm for a number of years.<br /> <br /> During the early 1990s, Syl and his wife, Amy, founded the Arena Rose Co. as a specialty source of unique roses. Many people are familiar with Syl’s photography and design work through the award-winning catalogs he produced for Arena Roses. In 2006, Syl left the rose industry to pursue a full-time career in commercial photography and publication design. His colleagues in horticulture did not let him stray far.<br /> <br /> As a photographer, Syl recently completed portfolios for the introduction of two of the three roses selected as 2009 All-America Rose Selection winners. Many of the rose photographs featured on MarthaStewart.com were created by Syl. His photography has also appeared in books and magazines published on both sides of the Atlantic.<br /> <br /> Syl employs state-of-the-art, purely digital workflows from image capture to final output. Pure digital is the best solution for photography that needs to be color-critical, tasked to a variety of media, or produced rapidly on your premises. As a photographer whose work has appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunset</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Martha Stewart Baby</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span>, Syl has the eye to get the shots you need – from a single frame to an entire campaign.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS<br /> <br /> </span></span></font></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><img style="width: 91px; height: 66px;" alt="ASMP General Memberl Logo" src="/users/SylArena3481/Image/generalmember_red.gif" /> <img width="120" height="52" src="/users/SylArena3481/Image/SAA_Logo_on_white_120.jpg" alt="Stock Artists Alliance logo" /></span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span></span></font> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.apanational.com/">APA</a> - Advertising Photographers of America</li> <li><a href="http://www.asmp.org/">ASMP</a> - American Society of Media Photographers <a href="http://asmp.org/findaphotographer/profile.php?id=22837&preffer_specialty_ids=">My ASMP listing</a><br /> </li> <li><a href="http://editorialphoto.com">EP</a> - Editorial Photographers <a href="http://www.editorialphoto.com/find/find_profile.asp?id=3128">My EP listing</a><br /> </li> <li><a href="http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/">SAA</a> - Stock Artists Alliance</li> </ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"></span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4">PERSONAL MILESTONES</font><br /> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"></span></span> <ul> <li>1969 – Photography career started at the age of 8 when my great-aunt gave me a Brownie camera<br /> </li> <li>1984 – BFA in Photography, University of Arizona <br /> </li> <li>1986 – My first Mac (a MacPlus) had a whopping megabyte of RAM</li> <li>1995 – Jumped on the Photoshop bandwagon with version 3.0</li> <li>1999 – Catalog Age Silver Medal in Garden Catalogs<br /> </li> <li>2003 – Shot film commercially for the last time / Workflow now entirely digital<br /> </li> <li>2005 – PDN World In Focus Award of Merit</li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">CONTACT</span></font><br /> <br /> </span> <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> Syl Arena<br /> Syl Arena Photography<br /> 2070 West Highway 46<br /> Paso Robles, CA 93446<br /> <br /> studio 805 / 226-2794<br /> mobile 805 / 550-4514<br /> fax 805 / 226-2893<br /> <br /> email: studio at sylarenaphoto dot com (sorry you'll have to retype it -- we hate spam.)</div> </span></span></div> <h1><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></font></span></h1> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <font size="4" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></font></span><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">PASO ROBLES</span></font><br /> <ul> <li>A small town near the coast, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco</li> <li>The hub of California's Central Coast wine industry – over 100 wineries and tasting rooms call Paso home (lucky us)<br /> </li> <li>More info: <a href="http://www.pasowine.com/">Wine Country Alliance</a>, <a href="http://www.prcity.com/">Local Activities</a>, <a href="http://pasorobleschamber.com/">Chamber of Commerce</a></li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">May be interesting if you are a web rat..</span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Syl Arena | sylarena | California Photographer | California Advertising Photographer | California Editorial Photographer | California Annual Report Photographer | California Corporate Photographer | Food Photographer | Food Photography | Wine Photographer | Wine Photography | Vineyard Photographer | Vineyard Photography | Botanic Photographer | Botanical Photography | Horticulture Photographer | Horticultural Photography | Flower Photographer | Agriculture Photographer | Agricultural Photography | Rose Photographer | Rose Photography | Location Photographer | Catalog Photographer | Los Angeles Photographer | San Francisco Photographer | California Central Coast | Central Coast Photographer | Paso Robles California | Paso Robles Photographer | San Luis Obispo Photographer | Silicon Valley Photographer | Bakersfield Photographer | Fresno Photographer | Monterrey Photographer | Sylpix Creative | Napa Photographer | Sonoma Photographer | California Magazine Photographer | Commercial Photographer | California Photo Shoots | Fine Art Photography | Fine Art Photographer | Creative Photographer | Professional Photographer | Product Photographer | Still Life Photographer | Celebrity Photographer | San Joaquin Valley Photographer | Central Valley Photographer | LA Photographer | Orange County Photographer | Northern California Photographer | Southern California Photographer | My Mother's Favorite Photographer<br /> </font></div> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></font></span></div> </div></font></span><br> <h1> Syl Arena Photography - California Advertising Editorial Annual Report Corporate Food Catalog Photographer specializing in food, wine, agricultural and botanical photography.</h1>
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